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> The technology is evolving to be much more than a digital currency, and Silicon Valley sees it as the digital infrastructure atop which the next internet will be built. What does this even mean? NFTs? Endless “coins”? I thought it was pretty much conclusively demonstrated that crypto is pretty much useless for anything other than speculation. Anyone have a single concrete example of crypto being used in a clearly u…
> The technology is evolving to be much more than a digital currency, and Silicon Valley sees it as the digital infrastructure atop which the next internet will be built. What does this even mean? NFTs? Endless “coins”? I thought it was pretty much conclusively demonstrated that crypto is pretty much useless for anything other than speculation. Anyone have a single concrete example of crypto being used in a clearly u…
DNS alternatives like namecoin or ethereum.
> The technology is evolving to be much more than a digital currency, and Silicon Valley sees it as the digital infrastructure atop which the next internet will be built. What does this even mean? NFTs? Endless “coins”? I thought it was pretty much conclusively demonstrated that crypto is pretty much useless for anything other than speculation. Anyone have a single concrete example of crypto being used in a clearly u…
> The technology is evolving to be much more than a digital currency, and Silicon Valley sees it as the digital infrastructure atop which the next internet will be built. What does this even mean? NFTs? Endless “coins”? I thought it was pretty much conclusively demonstrated that crypto is pretty much useless for anything other than speculation. Anyone have a single concrete example of crypto being used in a clearly u…
The killer app of cryptocurrency is tax evasion
> The technology is evolving to be much more than a digital currency, and Silicon Valley sees it as the digital infrastructure atop which the next internet will be built. What does this even mean? NFTs? Endless “coins”? I thought it was pretty much conclusively demonstrated that crypto is pretty much useless for anything other than speculation. Anyone have a single concrete example of crypto being used in a clearly u…
DNS alternatives like namecoin or ethereum.
> The technology is evolving to be much more than a digital currency, and Silicon Valley sees it as the digital infrastructure atop which the next internet will be built. What does this even mean? NFTs? Endless “coins”? I thought it was pretty much conclusively demonstrated that crypto is pretty much useless for anything other than speculation. Anyone have a single concrete example of crypto being used in a clearly u…
> The technology is evolving to be much more than a digital currency, and Silicon Valley sees it as the digital infrastructure atop which the next internet will be built. What does this even mean? NFTs? Endless “coins”? I thought it was pretty much conclusively demonstrated that crypto is pretty much useless for anything other than speculation. Anyone have a single concrete example of crypto being used in a clearly u…
The killer app of cryptocurrency is tax evasion
> The technology is evolving to be much more than a digital currency, and Silicon Valley sees it as the digital infrastructure atop which the next internet will be built. What does this even mean? NFTs? Endless “coins”? I thought it was pretty much conclusively demonstrated that crypto is pretty much useless for anything other than speculation. Anyone have a single concrete example of crypto being used in a clearly u…
Stablecoins like USDC that are pegged 1:1 with the USD enable “wire transfers” with tiny fees compared to what banks charge.
I can picture this for other parts of banking that are so dated - escrow, checking accounts, collecting debit payments (lots of Internet companies won’t host sex workers because of puritanical terms from credit card processors for example)